Leasing the Farm
Built in 1927
My family farm in Ohio has leased land usage rights to a hydraulic fracking company. In addition to being a place of great personal significance, the farm is also the place where my Grandma lives and has lived for most of her life –with a significant portion of my family living on the land surrounding it. My father grew up on this land and has a deep connection with it.
Fracking on small family farms is becoming increasingly common. There are many factors as to why my family, and many like it make such a drastic decision. The idea that this industry while problematic to the environment, creates jobs in America and boosts the economy. The amount of money paid to just to sign a lease is enough to get most people grabbing a pen. One of the worst problems I have seen is ignoring the harm this type of oil extracting is causing the land.
In this project I want to bring in a personal touch, which most people ignore in debates such as this. I also want to create a dialogue between me and my family in grasping an understanding of why we have such different ideas about this topic.
Fracking on small family farms is becoming increasingly common. There are many factors as to why my family, and many like it make such a drastic decision. The idea that this industry while problematic to the environment, creates jobs in America and boosts the economy. The amount of money paid to just to sign a lease is enough to get most people grabbing a pen. One of the worst problems I have seen is ignoring the harm this type of oil extracting is causing the land.
In this project I want to bring in a personal touch, which most people ignore in debates such as this. I also want to create a dialogue between me and my family in grasping an understanding of why we have such different ideas about this topic.
Cows
Dad in Spring
Start of Fall
Feeding the cows
Bails of hay
Mud pasture
Emerald Ash Bore damage
Mom
Truck bed travel
Dinner time
Food storage
Wood for Winter
Dad
Pip berries
Aunt Rhonda
Hike in the woods
Hunting path
Gravestone
Emerald Ash Bore damage #2
Cow Talk
Uncle Andy bailing hay
Cousins
The path
Need for wood
Discovery
Century Farm
Mom, Grandma, and Aunt Rhonda
Grandma & the storage cooler
Walnuts
Planting walnuts
Fall changes
Cow 16
Grandpa
Desk
Historic Homestead
Billy's Pile
ALL IMAGES
© M.KATIE WHITE 2022
© M.KATIE WHITE 2022